Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cca!mirror!prism!peter
From: peter@prism.TMC.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HOW CAN I COMPETE WITH AN XT?
Message-ID: <206900100@prism>
Date: 4 Mar 88 18:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: prism.TMC.COM!peter    Mar  4 13:42:00 1988


Take a vacation from him. He has a bad case of 'nerd-itis'. I had it once
in college. I would play 12 hour marathon Star Trek sessions on the system.
I would appear bleary eyed for breakfast, and my insignifant friends would
look at me and I would say " I'm loading dilithium crystals...Command 
Klingons are a bitch... I hate Supercruisers...doesn't it bother you when
you are so low on energy that you are thinking of rowing home 'cause it's
faster and some Klingon tractors you into a sector with fifty billion 
Command Klingons and then you realize that you have failed to save the game
and then you die?!" They would look at me, their eyes searching for meaning,
sanity, humanity, and shake their heads, and back off carefully.

I would feel relieved, I would not be wasting any time with these oxygen
breathing, bleeding heart Klingon sympathizing, fifth column space derelicts,
and could go on to another Thud and Blunder filled day.

Then, one day, I reached nirwana: I became an Admiral Emeritus.

But I was too dazed to realize it. However, soon even Super Commanders
which once caused fear and loathing, now merely caused a stifled yawn as I
docked with my starbase and phasered them to space slag. 

I then returned to eat food again.
I started to look around, by eyes swiveling and feeling like battle
pitted ball turrets. I noticed these funny beings with their voices shifted
somewhat higher than mine. Uhm...I remember these...wait! don't tell me!...
yes! I know... those are feee..mmay...uhllls! Now why does that ring a bell?!
...fascinating...oh yeah!...I know one of those!...it's...uhm...it's...it's my
...uhm...girlfriend!...I maybe should dock with her...I mean...uhm...like
interface...no?...like deal with her on a non-electronic basis...yeah! that's
the ticket!

Thus began my slow process of re-humanization. I'm still together with her
seven years later and going strong. 

So "relax...take a pill... think it over Dave..." oops! wrong movie, I mean
read that book you always wanted to, go see that movie, take a couple of
weeks off, re-vitalize your social life, he'll snap out of it.
At XT 'speeds' it may take a while, but it's nothing personal, the five-
year-old-with-a-new-toy momentarily has control now, but eventually he'll
realize that significant others are far more versatile both soft- and hard-
ware wise (oops! a momentary lapse).

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